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celeste

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #15 on: 23:28:51, 04/05/13 »
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Tornado Red

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #16 on: 09:25:19, 05/05/13 »
Many thanks for that. What I was really looking for was any pictures of the shops in the 1970's
[really to see if they had been modernised] The 1973 photo of the T Seymour Mead shop in Platt Lane,
indicates that this shop had been modernised in the mid - late 1960's, as I know that in the early 1960's
the Burgons and Seymour Mead shops were still 1920's 'timewarp' shops.

tony dixon

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #17 on: 16:20:45, 08/05/13 »
After a lot of dogged digging, found this, courtesey Local Image Collection.

Bury Old Road Prestwich 1959.



Not the time-frame you're looking for, but it's a possible starting point.
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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #18 on: 19:12:12, 08/05/13 »
Many Thanks Tony, great photo.

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #19 on: 00:29:30, 07/08/13 »
Burgons,Wilmslow Rd Rusholme 1958

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #20 on: 09:14:11, 07/08/13 »
Thanks for the photo. Interestingly, in the 1975 Manchester 'phone directory there were still about half a dozen 'Burgons' shops listed.

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #21 on: 13:53:11, 11/03/15 »
My Grandfather, T E Bird, was the Managing Director at the end. He died in 1965 and sold Burgons to another chain of Grocers sometime before then but I have no idea when or who to. My Mother would have known but she is in no fit state to ask now.

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« Reply #22 on: 23:17:21, 11/03/15 »
Many thanks for this information. My connection is that my Great Grandfather [C H Scott] ran Burgons form about 1850 [when he took it over from Isaac Burgon] until his death in 1913. At that time the company was controlled by the Scott family. My Grandmother was Marion Scott. They sold out to E H Steele & Co of Bolton in the 1920's and there were various other owners until in the late 1960's the firm ended up as part of Sir James Goldsmiths Cavenham Foods. The company was removed from the companies register in 1976 some 77 years after my Great Grandfather had incorporated it.   

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #23 on: 13:28:02, 12/03/15 »
I was 10 when my Grandfather died and I don't remember him having any connection while I was small but he might have had when I was very tiny. I am pretty sure he didn't after about 1963 as he was too ill. I do remember my Mother saying that he sold it to another Grocers and they kept him on for a bit as an adviser. It is a pity that I didn't come across this thread several months ago as my Mother would have been interested but her dementia is now too bad. I have a Burgons price list which is fascinating from the 1930's

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Re: Burgons the grocers
« Reply #24 on: 15:01:44, 22/03/16 »
I have just found a cutting from the evening news sent to me by my Cousin. Dated 30th November 1949 is says that they are asking for acceptance for Burgons to be taken over by Moores Store from Newcastle up Tyne and that Burgons was the oldest Grocers in Manchester having started with one branch in 1847 in Stretford road. Also there were 64 branches and Seymour Mead started as an an assistant at Burgons in 1862.

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« Reply #25 on: 18:01:15, 06/03/17 »
Above Seymour Mead in the photograph was my Dentist, Mr Faust, the entrance was the door on Platt Lane. We went there for a long time, but every time he did a filling he would tell me I didn't need a shot for it.  I was 21 before I had a shot for a filling, and wondered why they wouldn't do give them.